El jueves, 15 de mayo, a las 12.30, tendrá lugar otra sesión del seminario TeC-FiloLab, en esta ocasión en formato online. Nos acompañará Neri Marsili, investigador de la UNED. Más abajo incluimos el título y el resumen de su charla, así como una breve nota sobre la trayectoria de Neri.
Title: «Rethinking Assertion in the Age of AI»
Abstract: Can LLMs make genuine assertions? Academics disagree. A key driver of this dispute is an underlying disagreement about what asserting requires. Rather than defending a specific characterisation of assertion, I will review different proposals, showing how each can be extended from human communication to machine communication. Artificial utterances, I will argue, satisfy different conceptions of assertoric force to different degrees. This pluralist approach better acknowledges our conflicting intuitions about machine assertion: it explains precisely why we feel that there is some sense in which LLMs can assert, and some sense in which they don’t.
Bio: Neri Marsili is a Researcher at UNED, in Madrid, where he leads the interdisciplinary project IDANOC. He is a member of METIS, LOGOS, BIAP, and of the original Cogito research group. His primary research focuses on (in)sincere communication and communicative norms. More broadly, he is interested in philosophy of language (especially pragmatics and speech act theory), social epistemology (including testimony and online communication), aesthetics (particularly the philosophy of literature), ethics (norms), and experimental philosophy. He is currently preparing a book manuscript on sincerity and insincerity. A draft version is accessible here.